While the Tea Party rails that our Senators and Representative serve too long and make too much money, the bigger question so how is that they make so much money beyond their salaries. This question is not limited to Repugnants. Even Dwight Eisenhower .. after a life on the modest income of a sold[...]
Posts Tagged ‘corruption’
March 20th, 2015 - 6:40 pm § in Politics
Here comes the prison bus to cart off another corrupt GOP congressman!
“A federal official tells CBS News that the FBI and Department of Justice are investigating Rep. Aaron Schock’s spending. The Associated Press reports that the government is convening a federal grand jury in Springfield, Illinois, and the FBI has begun issuing subpoenas to compel people [...]
March 3rd, 2015 - 1:45 pm § in Uncategorized
DOJ finds “sweeping” racism in Ferguson police and courts
“A Justice Department investigation will allege sweeping patterns of discrimination within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and at the municipal jail and court …. [P]olice disproportionately use excessive force against blacks …, black drivers are stopped and searched far m[...]
February 10th, 2015 - 2:57 pm § in Uncategorized
Lawsuit challenges Ferguson’s debtor prison
The corrupt city government of Ferguson, Missouri, ruthlessly exploits its poor black residents by having its police write them tickets for everything from not mowing their grass to crossing a street or failing to use a turn signal. Then, its municipal judges impose hefty fines — on top of fin[...]
February 6th, 2015 - 12:44 am § in Hypocrisy
Book Review: Immunity for the rich, a police state for the poor
“The problem is, if the law is applied unequally enough over a long enough period of time, at some point, law enforcement becomes politically illegitimate. Whole classes of arrests become (circle one) illegal, improper, morally unenforceable.” — The Divide: American Injustice in t[...]
December 16th, 2014 - 11:48 am § in Misc.
Washington’s lobbyist-designed license plate system rips you off
Decisions to replace plates more frequently — here and in other states — have largely been based on dubious safety claims. But legislators ignore that fact, because everyone benefits from a state law requiring car owners to replace their license plates every few years. Everyone, that is, except [...]
October 9th, 2014 - 11:50 am § in Misc.
Boston Police Disproportionately Stop, Question, And Frisk Blacks
An ACLU study has concluded that “Boston’s black residents are more likely to be stopped, questioned or searched by police,” CBS reported today. The study found that 63% of civilian-police encounters between 2007 and 2010 involved blacks, even though blacks make up only 24% of th[...]
October 9th, 2014 - 11:06 am § in Misc.
Black Man Gets Mugged By NYC Cops
It would almost be funny, akin to a man-bites-dog story, if it weren’t so pathetic and distasteful. Lamard Jones, who is black, was celebrating his 35th birthday at Coney Island with friends last month when white cops allegedly stopped the group and frisked one of his friends under New York Ci[...]
The 99% Rag: Poem for the Times
’Twas Year End and the CEOs / Did gamble with their bonus,
All bankrupt were the borrowers / In th’ encampment of the homeless.
The once-proud folks of Middle Class, their pensions stripped away;
Their diet was of canned dog food, ham-sandwiches and hay.
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The Story of Citizens United: New Video Lays Out the Case
New animated short shows how corporate power has eroded our rights and corrupted our democracy. Animations parody the political process we all know and love. 9-min video goes a long way toward explaining why the people's expressed desires are thwarted over and over by special interests.[...]